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11-letter words containing c, a, r, e, l

  • black bread — a kind of very dark coarse rye bread
  • black bream — a dark-coloured food and game fish, Acanthopagrus australis, of E Australian seas
  • black perch — a livebearing surfperch, Embiotoca jacksoni, occurring in abundance along the coast of California, having brownish-black scales often tinged with blue or yellow and a thick, reddish mouth.
  • black power — a social, economic, and political movement of Black people, esp in the US, to obtain equality with White people
  • black racer — blacksnake (def 1).
  • black water — household waste water that cannot be reused without purification
  • blackbirder — a person or vessel involved in the capture and transportation of slaves
  • blackhander — a member of a Black Hand group
  • blacklister — someone who blacklists
  • bleacherite — someone who sits in the bleachers at a sports stadium
  • block trade — the purchase and sale of blocks of securities through brokers, sometimes not members of an exchange, who negotiate between buyers and sellers.
  • blue collar — of or relating to wage-earning workers who wear work clothes or other specialized clothing on the job, as mechanics, longshoremen, and miners. Compare white-collar.
  • blue-collar — Blue-collar workers work in industry, doing physical work, rather than in offices.
  • bottle rack — a rack for bottles, such as bottles of wine
  • brace table — a table giving the lengths of the hypotenuses of right isosceles triangles of varying sizes: used especially for calculating the lengths of diagonal braces.
  • bracteolate — having bractlets
  • brake block — the part of the brake in a train or on a bicycle that is applied to the wheel to slow the vehicle down or stop it
  • brake cable — a cable that connects a brake handle, pedal, or lever to a vehicle's braking mechanism
  • branch line — A branch line is a railway line that goes to small towns rather than one that goes between large cities.
  • breton lace — a net lace with a design embroidered in heavy, often colored, thread.
  • broken coal — anthracite in pieces ranging from 2 1/2 to 4 inches (6.5 to 11 cm) in extreme dimension; the largest commercial size, larger than egg coal.
  • bubble card — blister pack.
  • bullwhacker — (especially in the early 19th century) the driver of a team of oxen.
  • bundle scar — any small mark left on the leaf scar from the vascular tissue, where the leaf was once attached to the stem.
  • bursiculate — resembling a pouch
  • butter clam — any of a genus (Saxidomus) of large, edible clams found along the Pacific coast of North America
  • cable-ready — (of a television or VCR) able to receive cable television directly, without the need for special reception or decoding equipment.
  • cackleberry — a hen's egg used for food.
  • cadwallader — a male given name.
  • cafe brulot — black coffee flavored with sugar, lemon and orange rinds, cloves, cinnamon, and brandy, ignited and allowed to flame briefly.
  • cafe filtre — a strong black filtered coffee
  • cafe royale — black coffee, to which cognac, lemon peel, sugar, and sometimes cinnamon have been added.
  • calc-sinter — travertine
  • calceolaria — any tropical American scrophulariaceous plant of the genus Calceolaria: cultivated for its speckled slipper-shaped flowers
  • calciferous — forming or producing salts of calcium, esp calcium carbonate
  • calcigerous — containing lime or other salts
  • calcineurin — (enzyme) A protein phosphatase that stimulates the growth and differentiation of T cells.
  • calefactory — giving warmth
  • calendaring — a table or register with the days of each month and week in a year: He marked the date on his calendar.
  • calendarise — apportion (eg budget) to equal units of time (usually months) within a year
  • calendarist — a person who calendarizes
  • calendarize — to apportion (e.g. a budget) into equal units of time (usually months) within a year
  • calendering — a machine in which cloth, paper, or the like, is smoothed, glazed, etc., by pressing between rotating cylinders.
  • calendrical — a table or register with the days of each month and week in a year: He marked the date on his calendar.
  • californite — vesuvianite jade.
  • call center — A call center is an office where people work answering or making telephone calls for a particular company.
  • call centre — A call centre is an office where people work answering or making telephone calls for a particular company.
  • call market — the market for lending call money.
  • call number — the number given to a book in a library, indicating its shelf location
  • callicrates — 5th century bc, Greek architect: with Ictinus, designed the Parthenon
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